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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 96 11:14:06 MDT
From:      Joerg.Langwald@dlr.de (Joerg Langwald)
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE, grog@lemis.de, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject:   Re: Any Pentium boards with more than 4 PCI slots?
Message-ID:  <199609160914.LAA08531@havel.robotic.dlr.de>
In-Reply-To: <199609151852.LAA04704@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>; from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 15, 96 11:52 am

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> >  > Does anybody know of Pentium boards which support more than 4 PCI
> > 
> > Hmmm, I seem to remember there was one with 5,
> > but that's not what you are looking for ...
> > 
> > Yes, there are PCI bus extension boxes for this 
> > purpose. Satoshi uses one for his large disk array.
> > They use TWO PCI to PCI bridge chips, one that sits
> > in any PCI slot of your motherboard, the other is 
> > at the other end of the extender cable, and wired
> > to the second back plane.
> 
> Okay, Satoshi, who makes it?

Look at http://www.bit3.com/expanuni.html .

> Where did you get it?
> How much did it cost?
> 
> Also what MB are you using with this?
> 

Joerg.




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